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Transports of delight?
It’s been years since I posted anything here that wasn’t a book review or something about life as a student half a century ago, so I thought I might try another tack. These days, I’m in rural Italy almost as much as urban Manchester, so I will offer you, dear reader, some insights into life…
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A Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marlena de Blasi
This is not the sort of book I would usually read, but since I was going to be in Tuscany for seven days, I thought it seemed an appropriate travelling companion. Evidently, it’s a sequel to her A Thousand Days in Venice, and there are other volumes on Umbria and Sicily- so you can see…